Thought Quotes - page 3

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Søren Kierkegaard)
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Søren Kierkegaard
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.
Jean Cocteau
They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
Voltaire
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Hermann Broch
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. (William James)
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William Hazlitt
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
George Boole
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
Angelina Jolie
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. (Harper Lee)
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emil Cioran
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Cesare Pavese
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Yevgeny Zamyatin